Reenforced collar



Jam: 23, 1925. 1,543,604

C. A. FISH ET REENFORCED coLLAR Filed April 5,1925

Patented June 23, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FISI il AND HENRY W. FISCH, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

REENFORCED COLLAR.

Application filed. April 5, 1923. Serial No. 630,003.

To all whom 2'25 may concern: 7

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. Fisrr and HENRY W. Freon, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angelesand State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements inReenforced Collars, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates to the reenforcement of launderablecollars, and especially ordinary plural-ply launderable collars oflinen, or a like textile material.

It is a further object of our invention to utilize linear elements, suchas cords or tapes, in strengthening collars, especially in the region ofthe edges and the folds thereof.

Other objects of our invention will appear from the followingdescription of preferred and alternative embodiments thereof and fromthe appended claims, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 illustrates a form of our invention in which we employa cord extending adjacent the end of a collar and across a fold thereof.

Fig. 2 is an alternative form in which we disclose the use of a thinflat flexible ele mentwhich may be a tape extending diagonally adjacentthe end of a collar and so folded upon itself and secured as toreenforce the same.

In view of the simple character of the invention herein presented, itwill be understood that 1 is in each case a collar, and that in thatform of our invention which is shown in Fig. 1, the reenforcement ofthis collar is a mere cord 3 which, although strong, is preferablyslender, unless a beading effect is intended to be produced thereby. Itwill be obvious that, unless the manufacturer intends to produce aconspicuous enlargement at the front edge of the collar, for an artisticeffect, the cord employed in reenforcement should be so slender that itspresence cannot be detected after the collar has been laundered in theusual way.

In the form of our invention shown in Fig. 2, we have suggested the useof an alternative linear element, which may be a tape 4, which mayadvantageously be invention,

stitched down on the line 8-5, before the outer elements of aplural-plycollar are secured together; and it should be understood thatin those forms of our invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the working ofthe button holes need not be so conducted as to cooperate in securingthe respective linear rcenforcing elements which we have described.

Ordinarily it may be preferable to so design even the externalreenforcements which fall within our invention that they shall becomparatively or wholly inconspicuous, and we-prefer internalreenforcement.

Although we have shown various alternative forms of our invention, itshould be understood that various parts thereof might be independentlyemployed, and that numerous modifications might be made withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of our as the same is indicatedabove and in the following claims, it being understood that in any casethe reenforcement which we employ is so disposed at the ends of the foldof a collar as to prevent tearing or ripping 1n order to prolong theuseful life of any collar to which our invention may be applied.

lVhat we claim is:

1. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded longitudinally, alineal reenforcement disposed between the plies and extending across thefold upon a bias.

2. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded forcement disposedbetween the plies and extending across the fold upon a bias, saidreenforcement being adapted to reenforce the fold and the button hole ofsaid collar.

3. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded longitudinally, areenforcenient disposed between the plies and inwardly from the endedges of said collar, said reenforcement extending across the fold andhaving a portion folded upon itself between the plies adapted toreenforce the button hole of the collar.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification.

CHARLES A. FISH. HENRY W. FISCH.

longitudinally, a lineal reen-

